Exploring the impact of work ethics on specific workplace practices in the ministry of Home Affairs & Immigration

Abstract

The title of this study is: Exploring the Impact of Work Ethics on Specific Work

Practices in the Ministry of Home Affairs & Immigration’s Division of Alien Control,

Citizenship and Passports. It’s a mixed research and one of the objectives is to test the

correlation between the ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration and the public’s

perception on work ethics. The intention of the research is: To assess the employees’

understanding and perceptions with regard to work ethics. To establish how work ethics

impact on specific workplace practices within government ministries. To identify

appropriate workplace practices that can contribute toward better performance and

service delivery within government ministries. The respondents articulated that

customer service at Home Affairs & Immigration is very poor. The frontline officers are

not friendly, very hostile, rude and don’t have time to listen to customers. The researcher

observed that the Home Affairs staff are very argumentative towards clients and leave

the counters unattended. The major finding was that there is lack of training among

Home Affairs staff. The majority of those who have been trained have a problem of

applying what they have been taught at government training offices. The researcher also

observed that there is too much workload for the staff to cope with the work and there is a

need to employ more personnel in order to improve the processes.

The realization of the study is that poor work ethics has a negative impact on the

Ministry of Home Affairs. The researcher unravelled that negative components of

punctuality, honesty, dependability, efficiency, positive work habits, friendliness, job

satisfaction, professionalism will all impact negatively on the performance of an

Exploring the impact of work ethics on specific workplace practices in the ministry of Home

Affairs & Immigration organization. The performance ratings by the government on average show that it is

good.